Re: [PLUG] Local Mirrors?

[Sergey Ostrovsky <sergey01@comcast.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Brosius" <kbrosius@kns.com>
To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Local Mirrors?


> JP Toto wrote:
> >
> > Michael C. Toren wrote:
> > >>- If there are significant costs... would folks be willing to pony up
a
> > >>small membership fee annually to offset the cost of having their own
> > >>local mirror to use for rsyncing, apt-updating, and ISO downloading?
> > >
> > >
> > > There could easily be significant costs, but it's difficult to
quantify
> > > without estimating how much traffic the mirror would generate, which
is
> > > also difficult to do.  My biggest question, though, is what would be
the
> > > advantages over using a freely available public mirror that exists
today?
> > > Is there a shortage of gentoo mirrors?
> >
> > There isn't really a shortage that I can see... but the gentoo mirrors
> > are strained a little. I can't speak for other distros but I imagine
> > some of the debian mirrors might get bogged down a little. The advantage
> > to having a local plug mirror would be for plugers to use for rsyncing,
> > apt-getting, and iso downloading. I just thought I would gauge interest.
> > If the costs would outweigh the benefits then I can understand.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > -mct
>
> Anybody tried out BitTorrent?  Maybe the people who have full time
> connections could pool together to sponsor some additional BitTorrent
> bandwidth.  This alleviates the purchasing bandwidth issue, but doesn't
> guarantee any level of service either.
>
> --
> Kevin Brosius

I tried to get RH 9 using BitTorrent from a box running Win 98.
The box would freeze every time when 40% of download complete.
I've read that people running BitTorrent on a Linux box were more
successful, though.
Sergey Ostrovsky.

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